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<h1>Announcing Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 Courtesy Binaries</h1>
Regensburg, Germany -- July 02, 2009
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We are announcing the availability of the Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 courtesy
binaries.

Grid Engine 6.2u3 is a feature update release. We are delivering a few much
demanded features and bug fixes, and complete the Microsoft Windows Vista support.

<h1>What's New</h1>

<h3>Exclusive Host Scheduling</h3>
Exclusive host scheduling allows users to request that jobs and parallel
tasks run exclusively on a host if allowed by an administrator.

<h3>Microsoft Windows Vista Display Support</h3>

With the release of Grid Engine 6.2u3, the display_win_gui feature is now
fully supported. display_win_gui can now be used to display a job GUI on the
visible Desktop, on both the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista
(Enterprise and Ultimate Edition), and on Windows Server 2008. This feature
allows a Grid Engine job to request the "display_win_gui" complex attribute,
which launches a GUI on the currently visible Desktop on the Windows host
that displays job information. This works only if the job is a native
Windows application.

<h3>Hedeby Simple Install</h3>
It is now possible to install and run an Hedeby system with only one JVM per
(managed or master) host. Previously, the system was using up to three
separate JVMs per host. This new feature simplifies installation,
configuration and maintenance.

<h1>Differences to the Sun Grid Engine commercial version</h1>
The Sun Grid Engine binary distribution available from 
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/sge/get_it.jsp">Sun Download Center</a>
bundles the following additional functionality:

<h3>Amazon Elastic Cloud EC2 Adapter</h3>
The Hedeby adds connectivity to Amazon Elastic Cloud EC2
and the ability to flexibly add execution hosts as needed on demand.

<h3>Initial Power Saving Support</h3>
A new power saving scheme in SDM enables the creation of a special resource
spare pool in which systems can be powered on or off when added or removed from
this spare pool.

<h3>SGE Inspect - Sun Grid Engine Inspect Module</h3>
A new Java based Sun Grid Engine Inspect module allows to monitor SGE
clusters and the Service Domain Manager (SDM).

Please send support questions and feedback to the "users" mailing list of
the Grid Engine open source project.<p>

The source code tarball we are creating contains all of the above
modules.<p>

The corresponding source code tag in the CVS repositories have the names<p>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">V62u3_TAG</span> (Grid Engine, ARCo, SGE Inspect)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">V10_U3_TAG</span> (Hedeby)<br><br>
A snapshot of the sources is available at the <a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">Documents &amp; Files</a> page
as <a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/203/ge-V623_TAG-src-all_modules.tar.gz">ge-V623_TAG-src-all_modules.tar.gz</a>
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<h3>Relevant Links</h3>
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      <td>Download:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/latest.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/latest.html</a></td>
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      <td>Documentation:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3">http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3</a></td>           
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      <td>Release Notes and detailed information on new features:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3/Release+Notes">http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3/Release+Notes</a></td>           
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      <td>Patch Matrix:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3/Patch+Matrix">http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3/Patch+Matrix</a></td>           
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      <td>Man Pages Online:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/manpages.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/manpages.html</a></td>           
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      <td>List of fixed bugs:</td>
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      <td><a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/62patches.txt">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/62patches.txt</a></td>           
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